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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/wɨpɨ

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Cariban

Alternative forms
  • *ɨpɨ

Noun

*wɨpɨ

  1. mountain

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: ypy
    • Kari'na: wypy
    • Proto-Taranoan: *pɨ(pɨ)?
      • Carijona: hïbï
      • Trió: pïï
    • Wayana: ïpï
  • Parukotoan:
    • Hixkaryana: àhà
    • Waiwai: ïïpï, ïpï
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: iwy
    • Ikpeng: ïwï (“stone, rock”)
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Panare: i'
    • Pemongan:
      • Akawaio: wï'
      • Macushi: wî'
      • Pemon: wük
  • Waimiri-Atroari: wypy
  • Ye'kwana: jüü

References
  • Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
  • Meira, Sérgio, Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 71, pages 127–192
  • Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*[w]ɨpɨ”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-03-05
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 178
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 431
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jüü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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